Mountain Folk Fest

07/28/2025

07/28/2025

This is a really nice, laid back event in a gorgeous rain or shine setting. Tickets are on sale now at this link: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/dave-kline-productions-1/mountain-folk-fest

Mountain Folk Fest, Sunday, 9/7/25, @ Reading Liederkranz Grove, rain or shine.
A music and music teaching festival.

Gate opens at 11am

MENTORING SESSIONS

11:30am to 12:15pm - Paula Taylor & Mike Andrews from Meadowood Music host “Get off the Page”, a session for musicians who want to learn more about leaving sheet music behind in favor of the liberating and exhilarating realm of improv music jamming. Bring your acoustic instruments.

1:15 to 2pm - Acoustic Guitar & Mandolin Workshop with William Alfred Parker, Jr., of Big Valley Bluegrass & The Mountain Folk Band.

3:45 to 4:30pm - Martha Spencer’s flatfoot dance and old time music class

MAIN STAGE
12:15 to 1:15 - The Magnolia Street String Band

1:30 to 2:30 - Martha Spencer’s Wonderland Country Band, presented by the Reading Musical Foundation

2:45 to 3:45 - Dave Kline & The Mountain Folk Band

4 to 5 - Salvaterra’s Garden

5:15 to 6:15 - The Magnolia Street String Band

6:30 to 7:30 - Martha Spencer’s Wonderland Country Band, presented by the Reading Musical Foundation

7:45 to 8:45 - Dave Kline & The Mountain Folk Band, hosts grand finale jam; students invited!

The 2025 Mountain Folk Fest takes place again this year at the Reading Liederkranz grove. We’re very pleased to again offer music workshops which create a learning/teaching/performance vibe for the fest. The schedule is below. There are plenty of places to adoptvand call your own for music circle jamming. Delicious home-made food and refreshing beverages will be available throughout the event. Persons under 18 get in for free! Shaded mountain & woodland setting, cozy covered pavillions and stage area, German beer garden too! Feel free to bring your lawn chairs.

Live broadcasting throughout the fest on CWTAP, which serves Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania via Service Electric and Blue Ridge Cable, as well as dozens of counties and multiple metropolitan markets, including the Lehigh Valley, Scranton-Wilkes Barre, Lancaster-Lebanon-Harrisburg, Reading, Philadelphia and New York.

Gate opens at 11am

A wonderful, relaxing teaching, learning, performing music festival presented at the idyllic and historic Reading Liederkranz, high stop Reading, Pennsylvania's scenic Mt. Penn. Clean mountain air, a gorgeous shaded woodland setting with covered pavilions, main stage and a traditional beer garden c

07/22/2025

Mountain Folk Fest, Sunday, 9/7/25, @ Reading Liederkranz Grove, rain or shine.
A music and music teaching festival.

Gate opens at 11am

MENTORING SESSIONS

11:30am to 12:15pm - Paula Taylor & Mike Andrews from Meadowood Music host “Get off the Page”, a session for musicians who want to learn more about leaving sheet music behind in favor of the liberating and exhilarating realm of improv music jamming. Bring your acoustic instruments.

1:15 to 2pm - TBA

3:45 to 4:30pm - Martha Spencer’s flatfoot dance and old time music class

MAIN STAGE
12:15 to 1:15 - The Magnolia Street String Band

1:30 to 2:30 - Martha Spencer’s Wonderland Country Band, presented by the Reading Musical Foundation

2:45 to 3:45 - Dave Kline & The Mountain Folk Band

4 to 5 - Act TBA

5:15 to 6:15 - The Magnolia Street String Band

6:30 to 7:30 - Martha Spencer’s Wonderland Country Band, presented by the Reading Musical Foundation

7:45 to 8:45 - Dave Kline & The Mountain Folk Band, hosts grand finale jam; students invited!

The 2025 Mountain Folk Fest takes place again this year at the Reading Liederkranz grove. Tickets on sale soon. We’re very pleased to again offer music workshops which create a learning/teaching/performance vibe for the fest. The schedule we’re working on is below … more info will follow soon.

Gate opens at 11am.

Ticket link: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/dave-kline-productions-1/mountain-folk-fest

07/22/2025

After a short hiatus since 2022, the Mountain Folk Show returns as a broadcast television, cable TV and internet program. This return to the airwaves will occur on CWTAP, which serves Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania via Service Electric and Blue Ridge Cable, as well as dozens of counties and multiple metropolitan markets, including the Lehigh Valley, Scranton-Wilkes Barre, Lancaster-Lebanon-Harrisburg, Reading, Philadelphia and New York.

A link to the return show is provided below.

Did you know that the original Mountain Folk show, with its forebear East Side Dave’s Bluegrass Festival first went on the air back in 1979 on a radio atation known as WHUM, “HUM COUNTRY”? The Mountain Folk Show, produced and hosted by “East Side Dave” Kline, is a branch of Kline’s Mountain Folk enterprise which includes video shorts, albums, digital content, live band performances, lectures, newspaper column content with photography, and the David L. Kline Family Mountain Folk Scholarship Fund, (providing scholarship funding for acoustic music students).

Did you know that the Mountain Folk Show was among the very first entertainment and interview content programs to be “broadcast” on the World Wide Web in the early 1980s, prior the the Internet use explosion? This was achieved through a partnership between Kline/Mountain Folk, Penn State University’s Main Campus, newly created World Wide Web facility and the engineering department of former Reading Mayor Tom McMahon before he took office and was running a private engineering firm. The broadcast was a major technological achievement at the time, a vision of the future and a trend setting luminary for what was to follow.

Shows featured major celebrities from bluegrass, folk and country music as Kline interviewed and/or worked directly with them on stage. A partial list includes Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Sonny Osborne, Dolly Parton, Jimmy Martin, Vince Gill, Ranger Doug, Del McCoury, Bob Paisley, Danny Paisley, Jesse McReynolds, Grandpa Jones, Cousin Minnie Pearl, Charlie Waller, John McEuen, Leo Kottke, Chief Powhatan, Peter Yarrow, Bill Staines, and Rhonda Vincent.

This first show in the new Mountain Folk series features Kline with the Hillbilly Hicks performing old-time music at the historic Speaker’s House of Frederick Muhlenberg, Trappe, PA, first Speaker of the House of the Continental Congress.

Recorded live on 7/13/25, The Hillbilly Hicks entertained at the Speaker’s House, the historic home of Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the House for A...

07/12/2025

We are pleased to announce CWTAP as our anchor television and media sponsor for this year’s Mountain Folk Fest at the Reading Liederkranz on Sunday, 9/7/25. The station will be at the fest broadcasting live.

07/05/2025

The 2025 Mountain Folk Fest takes place again this year at the Reading Liederkranz grove. Tickets on sale now. We’re very pleased to again offer music workshops which create a learning/teaching/performance vibe for the fest. The schedule we’re working on is below … more info will follow soon.

Gate opens at 11am

MENTORING SESSIONS

11:30am to 12:15pm - Paula Taylor & Mike Andrews from Meadowood Music host “Get off the Page”, a session for musicians who want to learn more about leaving sheet music behind in favor of the liberating and exhilarating realm of improv music jamming. Bring your acoustic instruments.

1:15 to 2pm - TBA

3:45 to 4:30pm - Martha Spencer’s flatfoot dance and old time music class

MAIN STAGE
12:15 to 1:15 - Act TBA
1:30 to 2:30 - Martha Spencer’s Wonderland Country Band (Presented by the Reading Musical Foundation)
2:45 to 3:45 - Dave Kline & The Mountain Folk Band
4 to 5 - Act TBA
5:15 to 6:15 - Act TBA
6:30 to 7:30 - Martha Spencer’s Wonderland Country Band (Presented by the Reading Musical Foundation)
7:45 to 8:45 - Dave Kline & The Mountain Folk Band, hosts grand finale jam; students invited to participate

https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/dave-kline-productions-1/mountain-folk-fest

Event Details

A wonderful, relaxing teaching, learning, performing music festival presented at the idyllic and historic Reading Liederkranz, high stop Reading, Pennsylvania's scenic Mt. Penn. Clean mountain air, a gorgeous shaded woodland setting with covered pavilions, main stage and a traditional beer garden combine to create a perfect setting for this celebration of acoustic bluegrass, folk and mountain music. The kitchen and bars are open with full food and beverage menu available. There are endless options to adopt and create your own special woodland music jam area. Workshops and stage shows happen throughout the fest. Persons 18 and under get in for free making the fest extremely family friendly.

07/02/2025

The Mountain Folk Fest returns on Sunday, 9/7/25, noon to 9pm, at the Reading Liederkranz, more info coming soon.

09/03/2024

08/26/2024

"Where Could I Go But to the Lord", final song evrning set at Mountain Folk Fest, Dave Kline & The Mountain Folk Band, last night at the Reading Liederkranz, presented by Mount Penn Preserve, Reading Musical Foundation and the David L. Kline Family Mountain Folk Music Scholarship Fund for students studying acoustic bluegrass, folk, mountain and Appalachian-style music.

Final song in evening set at the Mountain Folk Fest, Reading Liederkranz, PA, 8/25/24.

08/26/2024

Here’s a selection of photos from the lense of our good friend Bill Coughlin showing fun memories from this day’s 2024 Mountain Folk Fest presented as a partnership of Mount Penn Preserve, Reading Musical Foundation, Reading Liederkranz and the David L. Kline Family Mountain Folk Scholarship Fund. Thank You Bill!

Mountain Folk Fest held on Sunday, August 25, 2024 at Liederkranz, Reading PA.

07/22/2024

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